wonky
3
7.7
- adjective
- /ˈwɑŋki/
- Informal
:
fallido
- Something's wonky with Ziggy, and we don't know how to fix it.
- go wonky
- a little wonky
Something this side went a little wonky, but that's OK.
- Something this side went a little wonky, but that's OK.
- I mean, we, we've got this old tech, we've got these wonky radar systems that throw up errors.
- So they set up double dates, but every single double date starts going a little bit wonky.
- But I've heard wonky answers about why automated ones are sometimes incorrect.
- Charlie bit my finger, the dance guy, like and it was wonky and it was slow and you had to dial up and it was just it just wasn't right.
- We changed the podcast tag based on my instructions to Lederman last week and a bunch you said it's really bad and wonky.
- And and if you and if things is a little wonky, then then, then meet the day halfway, you know, renegotiate how your day is going.
- It, it's fantastic for a lot of stuff, but it, there's, there's places where it gets a little wonky and I mean, and it just doesn't go a little bit of wonky.
Examples
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There's something wonky with the A.C.
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Ahh yeah, the connection is just a little wonky.
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There is definitely something wonky with the numbers.
Blog text (9) -
The software is wonky here.
Blog text (18) -
Make sure faculty, staff, and students know that search results may be wonky at first.
Blog text (7) -
One warning: At press time, the website was acting a bit wonky.
Blog text (18) -
I feel like the metrics are gonna be all wonky anyway.
Blog text (25) -
Is this normal behavior, or has something gone wonky with integrated authentication?
Blog text (8) -
Afterward, I noticed my FF browser was acting a little wonky.
Blog text (20) -
The website itself is a little wonky in parts, but it's only been online since the fall.
Synonyms
6
7.0
Tending to fail or change without warning
4
4.8
Small digital errors make sound or video freeze
4
8.8
Poor quality and not reliable
1
3.9
Having many small errors or problems in a program
A part that does not work properly or is weak, often for body parts and machines
Not working properly so a machine or system cannot work as it should
Antonyms
How Reliable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wonky later came to mean 'not working correctly', especially for devices or apps, because you can think of a machine that is 'off balance' and therefore fails to work right.